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Northern Venture Trust (LSE:NVT) Graham Number : £N/A (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Northern Venture Trust Graham Number?

Graham Number is a figure that measures a stock's fundamental value by taking into account the company's earnings per share and book value per share. The Graham number is the upper bound of the price range that a defensive investor should pay for the stock. According to the theory, any stock price below the Graham number is considered undervalued, and thus worth investing in.

As of today (2024-05-24), the stock price of Northern Venture Trust is £0.575. Northern Venture Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £N/A. Therefore, Northern Venture Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.36.

The historical rank and industry rank for Northern Venture Trust's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:NVT' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.31   Med: 0.67   Max: 1.13
Current: 0.53

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Northern Venture Trust was 1.13. The lowest was 0.31. And the median was 0.67.

LSE:NVT's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
80.7% of 1135 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.76 vs LSE:NVT: 0.53

Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.


Northern Venture Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Northern Venture Trust's Graham Number can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Northern Venture Trust Graham Number Chart

Northern Venture Trust Annual Data
Trend Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.35 0.78 0.73 0.57 1.08

Northern Venture Trust Semi-Annual Data
Mar13 Sep13 Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.96 2.16 1.52 - -

Competitive Comparison of Northern Venture Trust's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Northern Venture Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Graham-Number data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Northern Venture Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Northern Venture Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Northern Venture Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Northern Venture Trust Graham Number Calculation

Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.

Northern Venture Trust's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2020 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*0.707*0.073)
=1.08

Northern Venture Trust's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*0.614*0.013)
=0.42

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Northern Venture Trust  (LSE:NVT) Graham Number Explanation

Ben Graham actually did not publish a formula like this. But he wrote in The Intelligent Investor (1948 version) regarding to the criteria for purchases:

Current price should not be more than 15 times average earnings of the past three years.

Current price should not be more than 1.5 times the book value last reported. However, a multiplier of earnings below 15 could justify a correspondingly higher multiplier of assets. As a rule of thumb we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5. (This figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1.5 times book value. It would admit an issue selling at only 9 times earnings and 2.5 times asset value, etc.)

Unlike valuation methods such as DCF or Discounted Earnings, the Graham number does not take growth into the valuation. Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power. Therefore, the Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation.

In general, the Graham number is a very conservative way of valuing a stock. It cannot be applied to companies with negative book values.

Northern Venture Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=0.575/0.42
=1.36

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Please keep these in mind:

1. Graham Number does not take growth into account. Therefore it underestimates the values of the companies that have good earnings growth. We feel that if the earnings per share grows more than 10% a year, Graham Number underestimates the value.
2. Graham Number punishes the companies that have temporarily low earnings. Therefore, an average of earnings makes more sense in the calculation of Graham Number.
3. Graham Numbers underestimates companies that are light with book.


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Northern Venture Trust (LSE:NVT) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
17 High Street, Forward House, Henley-in-Arden, GBR, B95 5AA
Northern Venture Trust PLC is a venture capital trust. The company's principal activity includes making long-term equity and loan investments. Mainly it invests in unquoted companies in the United Kingdom manufacturing and service businesses. Its objective is to provide high long-term tax-free returns to investors through a combination of dividend yield and capital growth. The company's portfolio of investment includes various sectors such as Technology, media, telecommunications, Business services, Healthcare, Oil and gas, Leisure, Consumer, and Industrials.

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